Garment-shaper.



LOUIS N. BISHOP, OF DAYTON, KENTUCKY.

l aARMENT-SHAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 16, 1908.

Application filed .'uly 26, 1907. Serial No. 385,740.

This invention relates to garment Shapers' for use in connection with sewing'machines, and the object thereof' is to provide a device of such class for producing ina ready, feesie ble and convenient manner uniformity in curve shapes when manufacturing articles of wearing apparel or other articles of manufacture to which the device is applicable.

A further object of the invention is to provide a garment Shaper which will cause the work disposed thereover to retain a circular or concave bulged contour, `which is particularly advantageous in lining structures for application over rounded parts of a body.

A further object of the invention is to provide a garment shaper in a manner as hereinafter set forth for imparting a circular shape to the material after being sewed as well as imparting to the material a bulged contour sloping in all directions from the center to the edge and which is particularly advantageous in manufacturing garments and kindred articles.

A further object of the invention is ,to provide a garment Shaper for inatei'rials,I i. Yhich is particularly advantageous for' sewing seams Where one length of cloth is desired shorter than theother.

Further objects of the invention are to provide a garment Shaper for use in connec tion with sewing machines, which shall be simple in its construction and arrangement, strong, durable, eflicient in its use, readily set up in operative relation to the needle and feed of the sewing machine, and comparatively inexpensive.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown a preferred embodiment of the invention, but it is understood 'that changes, variations and modifications can. be resorted to which come within the scolpe of the claims hereunto appended.

...n describing the invention in detail, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, wherein like' reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several j views, and in Wliichz Figure l is a perspective view, showing the adaptation of a garment Shaper in accordance with this invention to the bed plate of u. sewing machine. Fig. 2 is a cross section of a modiiication.

In Fig. l of the drawings is shown a garment Shaper in accordance withthis invention as forming part of the bed plate of a sewing machine and in this connection it will be stated that the bed plate 1 ,has one end thereof depressed in a circular cup-shaped manner 'as at 2 with the central portion 3 formed with an opening 4 which allovi'fs of the operation of a needle and feed and the coperation-with the needle and feed of thel presser foot. The circular cup shaped depressed portion 2 in vertical and horizontal section being concave. That portion of the depressed porti-on 2 which extends from the edge of the opcniu g 4 to the outer terminus of the depressed portion curves upwardly and terminates in the flat upper face of the bed plate l which entirely surrounds said dcpressed portion. The circular depressed portion 2 constitutes a working surface over which the material being sewed travels and imparts to the material a sloping shape after being sewed, as well as giving a vbuigen con-I tour to the material sloping in all directions from the center to the edge. Although the garment Shaper is shown as an integral part of the bed plate l, yet it is obvious thatan opening can be provided in the bed plate and the guide seated therein.

W hen operating upon the material to shape it, the material first passes over one side of the bed plate, then down one side of the depressed portion, then over the oyriening in the central part of the depressed portion, then u pover the other side of the depressedportion, and then over the other side ofthe bedplate. As the shaping device is arranged below the plane ofy the bed plate l, it 'is evident that that portion of the material which is not sewed is suspended above that portion of the material which is being sewed and such manner of disposing the material in connection with thc curvilinear working surface of the shaping device over which the material passes and further in connection with the opening in the central portion of the shaping device, imparts a circular shape to the material after being sewed and such shape is retained. The material when shaped has a bulged contour slopirgin all directions from the center to the e ge.

` In Fig. 2 is Shown modified form of the garment Shaper, and by reference to Fig. 2, 13 denotes a body portion substantially cup- Shaped in contour and adapted to rest upon the bed plate 14 of the machine. The body portion 13 in horizontal and vertical section is substantially concave and the central part 15 of the body portion is provided with an opening 16. The body portion 13 terminates .in an annular depending rim 17, Said rim ilaring and terminating in a laterally extending annular iiange 18 which is detachably l connected by the hold-fast devices 19 to the bed plate 14. The garment Shaper, as Shown in Fig. 2, is the same as that shown in Fig. 1, With this eXce tion, it is not an integral part of the bed p ate, but is detachably connected thereto. The garment Shaper Shown in Fig. 2 shapes the material in the same manner as the device shown in Fig. 1.

Either of the forms of the garment shaper, as shown, has its Surface over which the work travels of such contour as to impart a curvilinear or bulged contour to the work, and it will 4`furthermore be evident that Such construction of guiding device is very advantageous when forming parts of garments in which it is required that they should have a curved or bulged contour. 'lhe device is also end of the cloth aloft from the table of the machine, whereas if the shaping device in accordance with this invention is employed, the material would simply follow its course downwardly and upwardly over the Working surface of theA device, thereby producing the curve shape desired. A

A garment Shaper for sewing machines, comprising a circular depressed cup-shaped portion concave in vertical and horizontal section and having a centrally disposed open-A ing to allow of the operation of the needle and feed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

LOUIS N. BISHOP.

Witnesses:

OLIVE SPRAU, y BRAYTON G. RICHARDS. 

